Description |
1 online resource |
Contents |
Frontcover; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Miscellaneous Conventions; Introduction: The Context for a History; I The Background; 1 Music Exams and Victorian Society; 2 Competing for Candidates: TCL, ABRSM and the Society of Arts; 2.1; 2.2; 2.3; II The Board Established, 1889-1920; 3 The ABRSM Idea and the First Exams, 1889-91; 1; 2; 4 The Early History, 1892-1920; 4.1; 4.2; 4.3; 4.4; 3; 4.5; 4; 5 The ABRSM and the 'British World'; III The Institutional Culture, 1920-83; 6 The Inter-War Years; 5; 6; 7 The Board in Wartime; 7.1 |
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8 The Post-War Board8.1; 9 Too Much Success: the 1960s and 1970s; 9.1; 9.2; 9.3; 9.4; 9.5; IV The Board Revived, 1983-2009; 10 The Reconstitution, 1983-5; 11 Reconnecting with its Market: the Smith Years, 1983-92; 7; 11.1; 8; 12 Redefining its Role: the Morris Years, 1993-2009; 9; 12.1; 12.2; 10; Appendix 1 Speech and Drama Examinations; Appendix 2 ABRSM Personalia, 1889-2010; Select Bibliography; Index; Backcover |
Summary |
This ground-breaking history explores how the ABRSM became such a formative influence and looks at some of the consequences resulting from its pre-eminent position in British musical life. Its exploration of how the ABRSM negotiated music's changing social, educational and cultural landscape casts fresh light on the challenges facing music education today |
Notes |
Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Apr 2014) |
Subject |
Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (Great Britain) -- History
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SUBJECT |
Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (Great Britain) fast |
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Music -- Instruction and study -- Great Britain -- History
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Music -- Great Britain -- Examinations -- History
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MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- General.
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MUSIC -- General.
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Music -- Examinations
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Music -- Instruction and study
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Great Britain
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781782040156 |
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1782040153 |
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